Building material



April 25, 1933.

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BUILDING MATERIAL Patented Apr. 25, 1933 RUDOLPH D. FALK, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS BUILDING MATERIAL Application filed August 1, 1930. Serial No. 472,213.

This invention relates to siding for houses and particularly to the strips for finishing the corners thereof.

One of the objects of the invention is in the provision of a siding strip fashioned in such manner that the corners. of a building may be formed so as to absolutely simulate the appearance of natural brick.

Another object lies in the provision of a o siding strip fashioned for use upon the corners of buildings and so arranged as to cooperate with the conventional flat siding strip as to finish the corners of a building in a manner to simulate natural brick.

Still another object lies in the provision of corner strips for siding, said strips being formed with an upraised portion to simulate natural brick, there being also an extended underlapping portion,-said strip being bent in such manner that when applied to a building, it will cooperate with the previously applied flat siding strips 'to give an appearance of a corner finished with natural brick.

Other objects will appear in the following specification, taken in connection with the annexed drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a perspective of a right hand corner strip 2 is a perspective of a left hand corner strip;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail showing the manner of applying the right and-left hand strips, one above the other; and

Fig. 4 is a detail showing of the. manner of applying the corner strips in combination with the conventional flat siding of similar composition.

Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view of the corner strip, taken. substantially on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

Before referring specifically to the drawing, it might be stated that the present applicant has for sometime been familiar with the structural make-up and application of a lately popularly received siding for houses. This siding is formed in strips of a weather-proofcomposition, the lower edge of the strips in bemg upraised in a manner to simulate natural brick. As a matter of fact, this upraised portion of the siding contains groundup portions of that character of brick that is desired to be used and the resulting appearance of the structure when finished is almost exactly like natural brick. Obviously, this siding may be applied at acost much less than natural brick, and although probably not as durable, nevertheless gives a rich appearance to a building at a minimum cost. Applicant makes no claim to the siding nor to the composition used in the construction thereof.

Heretofore the actual application of the siding to the frame structure of a building has been attended with certain disadvantages as respects the corners of the building, inasmuch as the corners have been finished either by the ends of a siding abutting at the corner, leaving a rough edge and a non-bricklike ap- 1 pearance, or the rough edge has been covered with the corner strip which attempts to define the corner, giving it a bricklike appearance. It is immediately apparent that the corner is upraised and therefore does not simulate exactly the natural brick. Further, it is impossible to have the previously brick-marked corner strip, or rather the edges thereof, 00- incide with the corresponding edges or portions of the siding, due to the irregularities which attend laying thereof.

The application of such a corner strip will not permit close inspectionof the building, and even from a distance. detracts from the otherwise neat bricklike appearance of the building.

Applicant, as appears in the drawing, has provided individual corner strips made up 8.5 of a weather-proofing composition 10 having upraised portions 11 of a bricklike appearance. In Fig. 1 is shown a right hand strip and in Fig. 2 a left hand strip. These strips are built up individually and may be cut to any desired length. As far as the application thereof is concerned, in the first place they are made up of the same material as the conventional strips of siding 12, and are merely used in conjunction therewith to form th corners of the building.

In actual practice, the'individual corner strips are applied and the siding brought up to the opposed'edges thereof and continued. therefrom along the sides of the building.

The siding strips come in determined lengths and in many instances it is necessary to cut same in order that the corner strips themselves may assume actual brick size, which enhances greatly the appearance of the building.

It is apparent that the individual corner strips are applied in a right and left hand manner as seen in Fig. 3, with the result that the building has a natural bricklike appearance, as shown in Fig. 4.

The only possibility of distortion whatsoever when such individual strips are used is in the fact that the siding may, under some circumstances, in order to accomplish a neat fit with the corner, have to be cut down slightl However, such cutting would merely give the appearance of somewhat smaller bricks upon the side of the house, which is practically not noticeable.

The corner, however, is not only given an actual natural bricklike appearance, but further is absolutely weatherproof as is the side of the house.

There are further advantages in the use of this strip in that the siding may be applied readily and no confusion results in the formation and finishing of the corner portion. Previously, the formation of the corner required considerably more time and detail workmanship than the actual laying of the siding, while in' the present instance the formation of the corner is merely an incident of the application of the siding, and there is no possibility of distortion of the corner, inasmuch as the individual pieces merely form a continuation of the siding.

What I claim is:

1. A corner siding construction composed of a plurality of flexible waterproof building shingles positioned at a building corner in overlappin relationship, each of said shingles being Formed in L-shape by bending the shingle in a vertical plane, each shingle comprising at its front surface a lower portion which extends outward of the plane of theupper portion to simulate brick, one side thereof being of a dimension to simulate a header and the other as stretcher.

2. A corner siding construction composed of a plurality of flexible waterproof building shingles positioned at a building corner in overlapping relationship, each of said shingles being formed in L-shape by bending the shingle in a vertical plane, each shingle comprising at its front surface a lower portion which extends outward of the plane of the upper portion to simulate brick, one side thereof being of a dimension to simulate a header and the other a stretcher, the upper gprtion of the front surface of said shingle ing formed to simulate mortar and extending a suficient distance so that the shingles may be rapidly applied without any danger of any other part of the surface of the shingle being visible at the mortar line other than the mortar simulating portion, the extent of the mortar portion being suliicient to prevent irregularities in spacing the shingles from affecting the appearance of the corner construction, the brick simulating portion of one shingle being spaced from the brick simulating portion of an adjacent shingle so that a part of the mortar simulating portion extends between the simulated brick work and appears as a mortar layer.

3. A corner siding construction composed of a plurality of flexible waterproof building shingles positioned at a building corner in overlapping relationship, each of said shingles being formed in L-shape by bending the shingle in a vertical plane, each shingle comprising at its front surface a lower portion simulating brick, and a mortar simulating portion thereabove, said brick simulating portion extending outward of the plane of the mortar simulating portion, one side of said brick simulating portion being of a dimension to simulate a header and the other a stretcher.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto 

